Madonna

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News about Madonna, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 22, 2015

Digital music distribution methods that make it easier for people to download musicians' material illegally also allows artists to take control of leaks of their work and make profit on them; latest examples are leaks of songs by Madonna and Bjork, which resulted in both musicians releasing their work earlier than planned. MORE

Dec. 24, 2014

Jon Pareles Critic's Notebook holds that singer Madonna's decision to release six tracks from her album Rebel Heart in response to online leak of over dozen songs from album shows shrewd business sense; says six-song preview shows Madonna can still dominate music scene. MORE

Dec. 4, 2014

Dec. 6, 2013

Madonna announced on Friday that the illusionist David Blaine would join her as a guest curator of Art for Freedom, an online art competition. MORE

Nov. 13, 2013

Live Nation Entertainment, giant concert company that includes Ticketmaster, is in advanced negotiations to buy management companies behind U2 and Madonna; if deal goes through, it will further strengthen Live Nation's already deep ties with two of highest-earning and most durable pop acts of the last 30 years. MORE

Nov. 3, 2013

Madonna and Vice established the prize in September to encourage visual and video artists, photographers and poets to create new works that focus on social justice. MORE

Jun. 20, 2013

Madonna is fashionably late at screening of her concert film Madonna: The MDNA Tour, held at Manhattan's Paris Theater. MORE

Nov. 23, 2012

Russian judge dismisses a lawsuit against Madonna for actions during concert in St Petersburg in August that antigay groups say violated local law against propagandizing homosexual behavior. MORE

Aug. 30, 2012

Jon Pareles reviews performance by Madonna at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. MORE

Aug. 20, 2012

Madonna joins group of celebrities protesting the prison sentence for three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot. MORE

Aug. 9, 2012

Members of three Russian Orthodox groups in Moscow burn a poster of the punk band, Pussy Riot, whose members are on trial for performing an anti-Putin song at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and put a match to a poster of the pop star Madonna, who has shown support for the group; Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich have apologized, saying that they never intended to offend the church. MORE

Aug. 8, 2012

Madonna uses a Moscow concert to voice support for Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, three women from Pussy Riot a feminist punk band who are being tried on hooliganism charges after their 'punk prayer' directed at now-President Vladimir V Putin. MORE

Mar. 27, 2012

Madonna’s new album MDNA is a bipolar collection of songs that combine her favorite past poses with excellent timing and knowledge of today's pop music. MORE

Feb. 26, 2012

Top Twitter trends this week include posts spreading false rumor that singer Madonna has died. MORE

Feb. 7, 2012

Andy Lewis's performance on a slackline as part of Madonna's Super Bowl half-time show brings unprecedented attention to an obscure form of tightrope walking. MORE

A new Madonna album never arrives alone. Around it is a cloud of video, side projects, tie-ins, personal appearances and random buzz that obscure all divisions between the artistic project and the promotion.

Madonna thrived in the 1980's on being sensational and suggestive against a tame mainstream backdrop. In the early 1990's she became vulgar instead of shocking. But in a career whose only constant has been constant change, she is trying on a mantle of something like innocence.

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January 22, 2015, Thursday

Madonna defended images posted on her Instagram account depicting Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and other luminaries with their faces altered to resemble the cover of her upcoming album, “Rebel Heart.”